Comparative evidence for the evolution of sperm swimming speed by sperm competition and female sperm storage duration in passerine birds

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2466-2473

  Kleven, Oddmund ^a   Fossøy, Frode ^a,b   Laskemoen, Terje ^a   Robertson, Raleigh J ^c   Rudolfsen, Geir ^d   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Extrapair paternity; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Sperm length

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 69249177194     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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